This is an essential book for understanding the construction of the Nation and the republican state during the difficult Nineteenth Century in Peru. The story develops from the late Colonial period to the decade of 1860. Written by the renowned historian Natalia Sobrevilla, it presents a rigorous analysis of the historical process, through an economic, political and social view. Also, it questions the negative and stereotyped vision of the Nineteenth Century in Peru and studies fundamental aspects that permit a better understanding of the History of Peru.
This volume is an exhaustive archival research, a new vision of the classicals and a worthy approach of the various historiographic debates around the matter.